"kyle - mr rapidan" kylemrrapidan wrote in message
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And I mean *anywhere* near St. Louis! Oh, this is so horrible. If I have
to move there . . . where are the little brookie streams? Are there any
mountains there? Oh, god, oh, god. Someone please say something
encouraging.

Welcome to St Louis! You have a pretty fair chance of liking it here.

I work in downtown St Louis and live about 20 miles west. I can be in a wild
trout stream, rigged up and fishing, inside of an hour.

Southern Missouri is filled with enormous springs - the size of houses - out
of which water flows at a constant temperature of about 55 - 57 degrees,
thereby creating instant rivers. The railroads that headed west from St
Louis brought trout back from the west and dumped them out of trains into
those streams all over the Missouri Ozarks. A number of streams are
designated "wild trout" streams, meaning that they are not stocked. There
are also numerous stocked streams with different levels of regulation for
different fishing experiences. Finally, there are "Trout Parks" that are
very heavily stocked streams attractive mainly to meat hunters, although
they also have fly-fishing zones also that can, surprisingly, be lots of fun
to fish.

And, of course, St Louis has two fine fly fishing shops: Tom Hargrove's and
Feathercraft. There are others that I have not visited.

Check out the following for more info:

http://teosinte2.agron.missouri.edu/flyfishing//

http://www.ozarkflyfishers.org/

http://www.ozarkchronicles.com/

Bob